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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Jenny Valentish

‘You can come as you are’: the football club subverting gender norms

Falcons Football Herbie
Mitch Nivalis, a member of the Mount Alexander Falcons Women’s Football team photographed at ‘last light’ Harcourt, Central Victoria.
Film-maker Mitch Nivalis went to document a tryout session for the gender-diverse Mount Alexander Falcons football team and ended up joining. Photograph: Julie Millowick

One lonely lockdown in 2021, a solitary poster in a cafe window caught the eye of Mitch Nivalis as the film-maker left the supermarket in Castlemaine, Victoria. The poster was a call-out for the Mount Alexander Falcons football team, a come-and-try day for women and gender-diverse players.

Nivalis, a lapsed sporty type from childhood, hadn’t seen gender-diverse people actively encouraged to join a football club before. Something stirred.

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